Great Story About Hardpan Soil

There’s a certain magic in coaxing life from reluctant soil. For some, gardening is a gentle pastime—a dance with sunshine and soft earth. But for others, it’s a fierce declaration of will against rock, clay, drought, or frost. These are the gardeners with grit. The ones who look at barren ground and see not impossibility, but potential waiting to be unearthed. Today, we pay homage to that indomitable spirit, embodied most remarkably by a man who didn’t just garden in harsh conditions—he sculpted an entire Eden beneath them: Baldasare Forestiere. Read more…https://www.cottageseed.com/journal-1/underground-gardens-grit

This rang a bell with me.

https://permaculture.com.au/the-underground-gardens-of-fresno-california/